Balkan Wargamer

Second on my holiday reading list has been Bernard Cornwell’s latest epic, ‘The Pagan Lord’. This is the latest in the Warrior Ch...

I played my first game of Chain of Command at the club yesterday, the WW2 platoon level skirmish game by Two Fat Lardies. We played a V...

I did promise myself some gaming over the holidays and I got to a project inspired by my first game with the excellent Musket and Tomahawk ...

My holiday reading starts with, ‘ Conquer or Die! Wellington’s Veterans and the Liberation of the New World ’ by Ben Hughes. Simon Boli...

Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope you got all the toys you wanted! Given my huge pile of metal I asked for some restraint from Santa, but it...

Two more units of Brits for my Bolt Action Malaya project. These are Perry plastics as several units got diverted to Singapore. And...

Some more 28mm Japanese for the Malaya campaign. Again these are Warlord, based for Bolt Action rules. If I can finish off the Brits by Xmas...

First of the Warlord Japanese off the bench. These are from the Warlord metal box and few extras. Probably a few too many kneeling and crawl...

The WW2 Far East project is back on track with some more reading on the Malayan campaign. This time a compelling story about the 'stay...

My Far East project has taken a bit of a detour into the Sino-Japanese conflict, which of course began before WW2. My latest reading is Rana...

The latest additions to my Bolt Action 28mm Balkan WW2 project are the Handschar. Or properly, the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS H...

I played my first game of Muskets and Tomahawks today at the club. A dry run for the club display game at the Targe show next weekend at Kir...

I eventually got some of the recent painting on the table today with a Malaya game using Flames of War rules. A Japanese tank platoon of f...

My reading has drifted a bit from the original Russo-Japanese project to the earlier conflict in China. This includes Peter Harmsen's, ...

I went to the SELWG show at Crystal Palace today. I am in London for half term and the wargames is a trade for taking Jess to the Harry Pott...

I haven't posted a book review for a while because my latest reading has been heavy going. It is James Pettifer's ' The Kosova L...

Next batch of Russians have finally made it off the painting bench. First some 45mm ATGs  Then 76mm field guns  and finally some m...

My latest reading has been Peter Haining's 'Where the Eagle Landed'. This is badged as the mystery of the German invasion of Bri...